 | 1845 - 558 pages
...what miracle could the pigmy capacity of a stunted pedant be enlarged to a reception of the subject ? The endeavour to approach it would have only removed...: as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe is thrown back by the re-action of its own eflbrt to comprehend. — It may be given to a Hale,... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - 1847 - 662 pages
...what miracle could the pigmy capacity of a stunted pedant be enlarged to a reception of the subject ? The endeavour to approach it would have only removed him to a greater distance from it than he was before; as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe is thrown back by... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1849 - 494 pages
...what miracle could the pigmy capacity of a stunted pedant be enlarged to a reception of the subject 1 The endeavour to approach it would have only removed...: as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe is thrown back by the reaction of its own effort to comprehend. It may be given to an Hale or... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1850 - 534 pages
...what miracle could the pigmy capacity of a stunted pedant be enlarged to a reception of the subject ? The endeavour to approach it would have only removed...before, as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe is thrown back by the reaction of its own effort to comprehend. It may be given to a Hale or... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1851 - 476 pages
...could the pigmy capacity of a stunted pedant be enlarged to a reception of the subject ? The endeavor to approach it would have only removed him to a greater...before, as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe is thrown back by the reaction of its own effort to comprehend. It may be given to a Hale or... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1851 - 464 pages
...could the pigmy capacity of a stunted pedant be enlarged to a reception of the subject ? The endeavor to approach it would have only removed him to a greater distance than he was before, us a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe is thrown back by the reaction of its own effort... | |
 | William Henry Curran - 1855 - 1454 pages
...what miracle could the pigmy capacity of a stunted pedant be enlarged to a reception of the subject? The endeavour to approach it would have only removed...before, as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe is thrown back by the reaction of its own efforts to comprehend. It may be given to an Hale or... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 pages
...miracle could the pigmy capacity of a stunted pedant be enlarged for the reception of the subject ? To endeavour to approach it would have only removed him...before, as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe is thrown back by the reaction of its own efforts to comprehend. ' It may be given to a Hale... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - 1862 - 482 pages
...the subject ? The endeavour to approacb it would have only removed him to a greater distance from it than he was before ; as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe is thrown back by the reaction of its own effort to comprehend. It may be given to a Hale, or... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1870 - 654 pages
...miracle could the pigmy capacity of a stunted pedant be enlarged for the reception of the subject ? To endeavour to approach it would have only removed him...before, as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe is thrown back by the reaction of its own efforts to comprehend. It may be given to a Hale or... | |
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... delivered with the fretful smile of irritated self-sufficiency and disconcerted arrogance; or even, if he could be dragged by his fears to a consideration of the question, by what miracle could the pigmy capacity of a stunted pedant be enlarged... 
